All-Party Folk Committee about putting folk traditions more at the heart of England's cultural life and identity.

That has to be the most depressing thing I've ever read on Mudcat. Folk Traditions ARE the heart of England's cultural life and identity - just not the sort of Folk Traditions that an All-Party Folk Commitee (!) are likely to recognise as being Folk Traditions. Looks like we're on the brink of a WAV-like State Funded Volkism here, where nothing can be truly Folk unless sanctioned by the APFC.

Meanwhile, out here in the real world, life, and folk (music, song, lore, tales, customs, traditions etc. etc.) quite happily endures as a consequence of simply living and breathing.